Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1887-11-03
MUST HANG.
THE B0MB-THROWERS DOOMED TO
THE GALLONS.
The United States Supreme Court
Refuses to Grant a Writ of
Error-The Chief Points.
ESPECIAL DISPATCHES TO THE REooRD-us1os.l

copwlgM, 1887, By Tie California Associated Press
WASHINGTON, November 2d.-The Chi
cago Anarchists must hang. The Supreme
Court to-day denied the application for the
writ of error presented by counsel for the
condemned. There was no dissenting
opinion in the Court. In anticipation of
the decision to-day all the seats in the
Courtroom outside the bar were filled at
11:30 O'Clock, and extra chairs had to be
placed within the bar to accommodate the
lawyers interested in the case. At noon
every chair was occupied, and the space in
the rear of the railing was filled with men
and women, packed as close as they could
stand.
A few minutes before the Court assem-
bled ]. Randolph Tucker, Captain Black
and NJ. Solomon, of counsel for the An
archists, entered the room. General Butler
was absent, and District Attorney Grinnell,
of Chicago, who had represented the State
in the argument, had left the city. Sem
ators Harrison and Mcdonald, of Indiana,
ex-Secfetary Bristow and quite number
of the members of the House occupied
seats within the bar.
At 12:5 o'clock the Justices filed into
Court and took their accustomed places on
| the bench.
Chief Justice Waite laid before him a
pile of manuscript written upon foolscap
| paper, and after the crier had opened the
| Court with the usual formula, the Chief
| Justice announced the case, called for a
glass of water, and began reading the de-
cision. From the beginning it was evil
dent that the decision was adverse to the
| petitioners.
The Chief Justice was thirty-five min
utes in rendering the opinion, and during
that time not person left the Court, nor
| was sound heard to mar the monotonous
voice of Justice Waite as he sealed the
doom of the condemned.
CHIEF POINTS OF THE OPINION.
WASHINGTON, November 2d.-The decis-
ion of the United States Supreme Court
| upon the petition for writ of error in the
case of the Chicago Anarchists was an
nounced this afternoon by Chief Justice
Waite in long and carefully-prepared
opinion. The Court holds, in brief:
First-That the first ten amendments to
the Constitution are limitations upon Fed
| eral and not upon State action.
Second-That the jury law Of Illinois is
| upon its face valid and constitutional.
Provision to the Statutes of Utah which
was sustained in this Court in the case of
Hopt. VS.. The Territory of Utah.
Thlrd-That it does not appear in the
| record that upon the evidence at the trial
| the Court should have declared Juror San
| ford incompetent.
Fourth-That the objection to the admis-
sion of Johann Most's letter. and the cross
| examination of Spies, which counsel for
prisoners maintained virtually compelled
! them to testify against themselves, were
! not stated in the trial Court, and that, there
| fore, no foundation was laid for the exer-
| else of this course of jurisdiction.
Fifth-That the questions raised by Gen.
| eral Butler in the case of Spies and Fielden,
| upon the basis of their foreign nationality,
| were neither raised nor decided in the State
Courts, and therefore cannot be considered
here.
The writ of error prayed for must conse.
qpently be denied.
There was no dissenting opinion.